Gnome, Nautilus / Pcman Main menu Opening Find File instead of Home

sweetthdevil · 2010-03-25 11:37:38

Hi there,

I am running two user, mine on Compiz-standalone with Pcman as it's lighter.

The second user is using gnome and therefore need and want to keep using nautilus,

The problem is when trying to open the Home folder from the Gnome main menu, a dialogue box "Find File" is opening instead of the Home folder by Nautilus.

Now after searching the forum, I edited the /usr/share/applications/mime.cache

However this hasn't change the problem, I try restarting the PC for the change to take effect but without success.

Any suggestion on how to resolve this annoying bug?

matkam · 2010-04-04 19:05:32

I am having the same issue, using regular Gnome with Nautilus. I started noticing it after the upgrade to Gnome 2.30. Clicking any of the top section buttons under the Gnome panel's "Places" menu brings up "Find Files" searching inside the folder, instead of Nautilus on the folder. Clicking on "Computer" actually does bring up Nautilus.

sweetthdevil · 2010-04-04 19:06:48

Yes, the same there, and have you found a solution to have the "home" folder open by nautilus?

matkam · 2010-04-04 22:08:49

I switched to Openbox

Last edited by matkam (2010-04-04 22:09:31)

matkam · 2010-04-06 05:05:34

Actually, I just fixed it by uninstalling PCManFM. I'm not really sure why, but I noticed that when choosing "Open with Other Application" in Nautilus, it was confusing "Search for Files and Folders" with the pcmanfm command.

sweetthdevil · 2010-04-06 08:38:43

Yes I kinda realise that, but I want to keep those two option Nautilus and PCManFM...

arriagga · 2010-04-13 16:18:42

Has anyone found a solution for this problem with home?

thanks for your help

arriagga · 2010-04-14 16:03:18

I have the same problem.

Thanks.

bharani · 2010-04-14 16:09:10

You have to edit the mime file association.
Change or add the value for
x-directory/normal
in .local/share/applications/default.list.

Edit
I don't have gnome-menu.But once had this problem with mimeo.This solution worked.

Last edited by bharani (2010-04-14 16:29:36)

nagnatron · 2010-04-15 00:45:41

Thanks bharani, that worked for me.

bharani · 2010-04-15 03:45:44

nagnatron wrote:

Thanks bharani, that worked for me.

Happy to help. Just mark it solved.

sweetthdevil · 2010-04-15 08:39:00

Actually for me it was mimeapps.list which needed to be edited.

But many thanks to put us on the right track!!

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#1 2010-03-25 11:37:38

Gnome, Nautilus / Pcman Main menu Opening Find File instead of Home

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